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“Some days are like that. Even in Australia.”
― Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
― Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
“To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up its own ass - seeing things in such a narrow and darkly narcissistic way that it presents a colo-rectal theology, offering hope to no one.”
― Bird by Bird
― Bird by Bird
“Mary, you know I hate parties. My idea of hell is a very large party in a cold room where everybody has to play hockey properly.”
― Cold Comfort Farm
― Cold Comfort Farm
“people are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives”
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“Space is space,life is life,everywhere is the same. But as for me, sustained by the toil of others, lacking civilized vices with which to fill my leisure, I pamper my melancholy and try to find in the vacuousness of the desert a special historical poignancy. Vain, idle, misguided! How fortunate that no one sees me!”
― Waiting for the Barbarians
― Waiting for the Barbarians
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